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THE HERB-GARDEN 



not turn into cheese. This anti-curdhng property 

 of Mint may be the secret of its success in medicines. 

 Preparations of Mint are very useful when people 

 are put on milk diet, also for little children. Mints 

 are still used in the prescriptions of modern doctors, 

 Peppermint for the grown-up people, and Spear 

 Mint, being milder, for the little ones. 



The White Woolly Mint is the finest of the 

 family. It has downy foliage, very white on the 

 under side, fine large spires of lilac flowers that 

 spring from the main stem, a free way of growing, 

 and a very strong taste and smell. All the Mints 

 like plenty of moisture, but I have seen this plant 

 look quite splendid on the Herb-border of a sunny 

 walled garden in Norfolk. We took his picture. 

 It was a Norfolk man, too, who said he thought 

 the Woolly Mint made the best Mint sauce. 

 Certainly it would not lack flavour. He would 

 have been a kindred spirit with Seneca, who, I 

 believe by his own wish, perished in a bath scented 

 with this particular Herb. 



Lemon Mint, if not so handsome as the Woolly 

 Mint, is by far the most fascinating of all the 

 Mints we know. The leaves are variegated, dark 

 green striped with lemon colour, and they have the 

 most delicious and lasting perfume imaginable ; 



